A review by geoffdgeorge
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

Reads like a book-length version of the original New Yorker profile (staid, linear, proficiently emotive, etc.). Annoyingly, Max occasionally takes some rather liberal liberties in connecting passages of DFW's fictional works to his real-life thoughts and actions, and I found more typos in my first-edition hardback than I expected to. (Toward the front of the book, it seemed like there was one every other page.)

All the same, though, I was grateful to have even a slightly deeper look into the desperate highs and lows of an author whose work first brought me to my knees in college. For that, the book is still valuable.